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A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat

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A New York Times Best Illustrated BookFrom highly acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Blackall comes a fascinating picture book in which four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious blackberry fool. This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even families have changed throughout American history.In 1710, a girl and her mother in Lyme, England, prepare a blackberry fool, picking wild blackberries and beating cream from their cow with a bundle of twigs. The same dessert is prepared by an enslaved girl and her mother in 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina; by a mother and daughter in 1910 in Boston; and finally by a boy and his father in present-day San Diego.Kids and parents alike will delight in discovering the differences in daily life over the course of four centuries.Includes a recipe for blackberry fool and notes from the author and illustrator about their research.

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A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat, Emily Jenkins, Sophie Blackall

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Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Einband
(Hardcover),
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Titel
A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat
Sprache
Englisch
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Einband
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
44
ISBN10
0375868321
ISBN13
9780375868320
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Beschreibung
A New York Times Best Illustrated BookFrom highly acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Blackall comes a fascinating picture book in which four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious blackberry fool. This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even families have changed throughout American history.In 1710, a girl and her mother in Lyme, England, prepare a blackberry fool, picking wild blackberries and beating cream from their cow with a bundle of twigs. The same dessert is prepared by an enslaved girl and her mother in 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina; by a mother and daughter in 1910 in Boston; and finally by a boy and his father in present-day San Diego.Kids and parents alike will delight in discovering the differences in daily life over the course of four centuries.Includes a recipe for blackberry fool and notes from the author and illustrator about their research.